Category: Art
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Boxes
To me, classification is, like religion, a purely human construct. An apple doesn’t know it is an artistic item in a still life but a scientific cypher when it falls ont a physicist. It is an apple. So, why do we insist on first classifying areas of knowledge and then waste energy either defending or…
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List
So, I’m always making lists and have already done some work on cataloging life points using domestic and mundane items. I am currently reading The Infinity of Lists by Umberto Eco…beautiful book produced with The Louvre. I’m thinking about lists again as a result. Can you use lists, but=isual or otherwise, to distilled archival materials…
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Stau
TI have just finished a most marvellous book, ‘Think like an artist’ by Will Gompertz. I have mentioned him before in the context of his other book about art history. I think its brilliant. Sometimes I tweet him to fawn. I do hope he doesn’t think I’m a stalker. Anyway, reading this marvellous book has…
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But seriously…
I’m learning a lot on this MA. I have already discussed how I’ve come to realize that seriousness in approach increases the chances of a serious i.e. Considered response. I’ve been thinking about it a lot. Seriously. Today we had a lecture about photography compared to painting. It was almost metaphysical in content. I loved…
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Brain
So, having children can lead your brain to emulsify for a while. Not because of my female status, but because of sleep deprivation, multi tasking and multi conversations, cat herding talents and the usual domestic schlep. I am finally removing the glue from my synapses by studying for this MA. It’s a great feeling. I…
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Lights…
I’m looking at using projected images in c0njunction with static. Such fun and interesting to see how pieces look when illuminated. Close ups and scale adjustments. Lots to explore…]
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Fly Over
Things I have learnt this weekend… Sometimes (OK, most times) it is worthwhile to put a bit of effort into something if you want it to work out. I know, I know, it sounds completely obvious when I put it like that but I have come to realise that up until now, I have expected…
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Block
So, I was reading about Mondrian on the train journey down here. How his life’s work was the distillation of the nature he saw around him into a flattened, rigorous, restrained, taut analysis – the grids we are so familiar with. Mondrian plays on my mind quite a lot. The ubiquity of his work…
Sophie Wardle 